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Teaser Trailer & Poster For THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Starring Chris Hemsworth & Half Of Hollywood

Thor: Love And Thunder looks like more of the same superhero slapdash. This is kind of getting exhausting now as it seems like nearly everyone in Hollywoodis picking-up a nice big payday for starring in Taika Waititi’s fourth Thor movie. Chris [...]

April 19, 2022

Remembering Shane Black’s KISS KISS BANG BANG Starring Robert Downy Jr & Val Kilmer

Famed screenwriter, Shane Black made his directorial debut in 2005 with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black’s film, based on Brett Halliday’s novel, Bodies Are Where You Find Them is a near flawless modern noir and the script sizzles with [...]

December 9, 2021

Notebook Reviews: GLADIATOR

Ridley Scott – 2000 Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator is a frustrating historical epic. It has some great sequences and impressive effects but there’s quite a bit of inertia in the storytelling. Russell Crowe delivers a muscular, [...]

August 2, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Franklin. J. Schaffner’s THE WAR LORD

The mighty Charlton Heston is the master of the movie epic (sorry Russell Crowe) and The War Lord is a film that really highlights this. Teaming with Franklin. J. Schaffner for the first time, Heston plays Chrysagon de la Cruex, a Knight charge [...]

April 21, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Shane Black Directs Ryan Gosling & Russell Crowe On The Set Of THE NICE GUYS

A wonderful slice of entertainment, 2016 The Nice Guys is Shane Black doing what he does best (although maybe not pushing himself). The film riffs on his previous back-catalogue, mixing in a 1970s groove to keep things feeling fresh. It’s a shame [...]

April 8, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Zack Snyder Directs Henry Cavill & Kevin Costner On The Set Of MAN OF STEEL

Director Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel gets a lot right. The casting of Henry Cavill as Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent is spot-on and the actor brings the right notes of heroism and earnestness to the role, as well as embodying the physical presence [...]

February 25, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Kevin Macdonald Directs Russell Crowe & Ben Affleck On The Set Of STATE OF PLAY

Kevin Macdonald’s State of Play is a classy piece of Hollywood filmmaking that delivers an entertaining two hours in the cinema and features enjoyable star performances from Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. The 2009 film which [...]

December 7, 2020

Notebook Reviews: HEAVEN’S BURNING

Craig Lahiff – 1997 Heaven’s Burning is a violent and darkly comic Australian road movie starring Russell Crowe. Craig Lahiff’s film has a Bonnie & Clyde meets Mad Max vibe and it is crammed full of bizarre characters and [...]

November 20, 2020

Behind The Scenes: Russell Crowe & Darren Aronofsky On The Set Of NOAH

Director Darren Aronofsky harboured dreams of making Noah for over a decade and he was finally able to achieve his goal by using the critical and commercial success of The Wrestler and Black Swan as leverage so that Paramount Pictures would stump [...]

November 17, 2020

Notebook Reviews: PROOF OF LIFE

Taylor Hackford – 2000 A solid action/drama from Taylor Hackford, Proof of Life is sufficient without ever being truly satisfying The action scenes are well done and Russell Crowe is good in the lead role – even if he gets second billing [...]

August 29, 2020

Box Office: Russell Crowe’s UNHINGED Scores $4 Million Debut In First Post COVID-19 Wide Release

Opening in over 1,820 screens in the US, the Russell Crowe starring thriller, Unhinged was the first wide release since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March. Derek Borte’s thriller had long positioned itself as the first big post-Covid new [...]

August 25, 2020

Review: Russell Crowe Chews The Scenery In The Gritty & Violent UNHINGED

The first wide release in the United States (and pretty much the rest of the world), since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, director Derek Borte’s Unhinged arrives with much more fanfare than usually befits this type of film. A B-movie with an A-list [...]

August 20, 2020

The COVID-19 Release Date Shuffle Continues: BILL & TED, UNHINGED & MULAN Follow TENET To New Dates

Hot on the heels of Tenet‘s new 12 August release date comes word that another three films have shifted around the calendar. Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged has now taken the Christopher Nolan pic’s previous date and moved to 31 July [...]

June 28, 2020

The Wild, The Innocent & The Release Date Shuffle

Hold on to your hats because it’s going to be a bumpy ride! If you thought that you had your summer movie schedule all planned out as a way of getting over the Coronavirus pandemic, then think again! Warner Bros has shifted the release of [...]

June 13, 2020

Remembering Universal Pictures’ Ill-Fated DARK UNIVERSE

2017 was a much simpler time. It was a time when Universal Pictures decided to follow the Marvel route and attempted to create a shared universe for the classic Universal Monsters. The studio scored an A-list cast: Johnny Depp as the Invisible [...]

June 7, 2020

What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity: Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR At 20

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator has held-up well over the last 20 years. Russell Crowe delivered a muscular career-making performance in the 2000 historical epic, while Joaquin Phoenix gives a wonderfully squirmy performance as the villain of the [...]

May 19, 2020

DVD Review: ROMPER STOMPER Proves There’s More To Aussie TV Than Neighbours And Home & Away

Those thinking that Australian television begins and ends with Neighbours and Home And Away are going to be mightily surprised by Geoffrey Wright’s Romper Stomper. A follow-up to Wright’s 1992 break-out film, this six part series looks at [...]

June 16, 2018

Images From New ROBIN HOOD Movie Show Robin, Marian, Little John & The Sheriff Of Nottingham

Everyone loves a Robin Hood movie. You might say that you don’t – but deep down you really do! Errol Fylnn, Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe – heck even Cary Elwes and that Disney Fox – everyone has their favourite. There’s a new [...]

January 6, 2018

Welcome To The DARK UNIVERSE

I have to admit that this is giving Movies In Focus a little tingle. I’ve been craving a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters since Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy hit screens back in 1999 and now I’m getting it – with a [...]

May 22, 2017

The Poster For Tom Cruise’s THE MUMMY Unwraps

‘Show me the Mummy. Mummy: Impossible’ – I’ve used these jokes (but not The Color of Mummy), but I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to Tom Cruise‘s The Mummy. This is the summer blockbuster that I [...]

April 6, 2017

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